Reconstruction Quiz Prep

Question 1

What were the causes of the Civil War?

Answer 1

• Issues of slavery in the territories divide the North and South.
• Abolitionists wanted to end slavery.
• The South fears it will lose power in the national government.
• Southern states secede (breakaway) after Lincoln is elected in 1860.
• Confederates (South) bombard Fort Sumter.

Question 2

What were the effects of the Civil War?

Answer 2

• President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. When the war began Lincoln did not want to end slavery he wanted to preserve the union.
• Northern economy booms.
• The South loses the cotton trade with Britain.
• Total war destroys the South’s economy.

Question 3

Reconstruction

Answer 3

Rebuilding of the south after the Civil War.

Question 4

Freedmen

Answer 4

men and women who had been slaves.

Question 5

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 5

A southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.

Question 6

Amnesty

Answer 6

a government pardon.

Question 7

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 7

It required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union.

Question 8

Abolitionist

Answer 8

A person who wanted to end slavery

Question 9

Secede

Answer 9

to break away from

Question 10

What is the difference between the Wade-Davis Bill and Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan?

Answer 10

Wade-Davis Bill punished anyone who was in southern government and served in the military, 10% plan punished former Southern leaders

Question 11

Why did Lincoln veto the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 11

He felt it was too harsh on the south

Question 12

Who was not given amnesty under the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 12

Anyone who held political office, men who served in the military below the rank of Colonel

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free